Zionism and the Palestinians



Ethnic Cleansing and Racist Quotes:

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The removal of Arabs bodily from Palestine is part of the
Zionist plan to "spirit the penniless population across
the frontier by denying it employment. . . Both the
process of expropriation and the removal of the poor
must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly."



Theodor Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization
Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895 entry.

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"A Jewish State, a Jewish nation, a subordinate population
of Arabs etc. ruled by Jews; the Jews in possession of the
fat of the land, and directing the administration."



Wishes of Dr. Chaim Weizmann [first president of Israel] as
reported by British Foreign Minister Lord Curzon 1919.
Ingrams, Palestine Papers, 1917-1922, p.58.

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"The only solution is Eretz Israel [Greater Israel], or at
least Western Eretz Israel [all land west of the Jordan
River], without Arabs. There is no room for compromise
on this point. . . We must not leave a single
village, not a single tribe."



Joseph Weitz, Director of the Jewish National Fund,
the Zionist agency charged with acquiring Palestinian land,
Circa 194_. Machover Israca, January 5, 1973, p. 2.

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"When we say 'Jewish independence' or a 'Jewish State',
we mean Jewish country, Jewish soil, we mean Jewish labor,
we mean Jewish economy, Jewish agriculture, Jewish industry,
Jewish sea."



David Ben Gurion [Israel's first Prime Minister] to an
Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, 1946.

The Jewish Case: Before the AngloAmerican Committee of
Inquiry for Palestine as Presented by the Jewish Agency
for Palestine, p. 66.

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"There is not a single Jewish village in this country
that has not been built on the site of an Arab visage."



Moshe Dayan Israeli Defense Minister,
Ha'aretz, April 4, 1967.

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"Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our time
is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of
the Freedom Party (Herut), a political party closely akin
in its organization, methods, political philosophy, and
social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties." [Begin
later becomes Prime Minister, and Herut member,
Yitzhak Shamir, is Israel's current Prime Minister.]



Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt and other prominent Jewish
Americans, writing in The New York Times, protest the
visit to America of Menachem Begin, December 4, 1948.

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"When we [followers of prophetic Judaism] returned to
Palestine . . . the majority of Jewish people preferred
to learn from Hitler rather than from us."



Jewish philosopher Martin Buber to a New York audience,
Jewish Newsletter, June 2, 1958.

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"Hitler's legal power was based upon the 'Enabling Act',
which was passed quite legally by the Reichstag and which
allowed the Fuehrer and his representatives, in plain
language, to do what they wanted, or in legal language,
to issue regulations having the force of law. Exactly
the same type of act was passed by the Knesset
[Israel's Parliament] immediately after the 1967
conquest granting the Israeli governor and his
representatives the powers of Hitler, which they use
in a Hitlerian manner."



Dr. Israel Shahak, Chairperson of the Israeli League
for Human and Civil Rights, and a survivor of the Bergen
Belsen concentration camp, Commenting on the Israeli
military's Emergency Regulations following the 1967 War.
Palestine, vol. 12, December 1983.

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I see "many similarities in the oppression of blacks in
South Africa and of Palestinians,"



Denis Goldberg, a Jewish South African sentenced to life
imprisonment for "conspiring to overthrow the apartheid
regime," is released through the intercession of
Israeli officials, states on arrival in Israel, March 1985.
He also called for a total economic boycott of South
Africa, singling out Israel as a major ally of the
apartheid regime. Pledging never to stay in Israel,
Goldberg moves to London.

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"It is forbidden to sell apartments in the Land of Israel
to Gentiles,"



Mordecai Eliayahu, the Israeli Chief Rabbi commenting on
an attempt by a Palestinian to buy an apartment owned by
the Jewish National Fund in East Jerusalem.
Ha'aretz 17 January 1986.

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"There is an element of racism involved in the attitude of
Israelis towards Arabs."  Belief of 65% of Americans,
including 41% of American Jews, April 1988.



Poll of Americans as reported in The Los Angeles Times,
April 11, 1988.

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". . . Jewish blood and a goy's [gentile's] blood are not
the same,"



Israeli Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg, inferring that killing isn't
murder if the victim is Gentile.
Jerusalem Post, June 19, 1989.

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"Israel should have exploited the repression of the
demonstrations in China, when world attention focused
on that country, to carry out mass explosions among the
Arabs of the territories."



Benjamin Netanyhu, then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister
tells students at BarIlan University.
From the Israeli Journal Hotam, November 24, 1989.

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"I am a black South African, and if I were to change
the names, a description of what is happening in the
Gaza Strip and the West Bank could describe events
in South Africa."



Archbishop Desmond Tuto, Nobel laureate, observes
during Christmas visit to Jerusalem, December 25, 1989.
From Israeli daily Ha'aretz, cited in
Palestine Perspectives, January/February 1990.

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"Jews should be able to move into the Christian Quarter,
but nonJews should be barred from the Jewish Quarter."


 
Jonathan Blass, spokesperson for the Israeli settlers.
The U.S. State Department calls the settlers' move
"an insensitive and provocative action"
The New York Times, April 25, 1990.

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"The past leaders of our movement left us a clear message
to keep Eretz Israel from the Sea to the [river] Jordan for
future generations, for the mass aliya [immigration], and
for the Jewish people, all or most of whom will be gathered
into this country."



Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir declares at a Tel Aviv
memorial service for former Likud leaders, November 1990.
Jerusalem Domestic Radio Service, November 18 & 19, 1990,
as cited in Report on Israeli Settlement, March 1991.

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"Nearly 2,500 acres of land in the [West Bank] villages
of Husan, Wadi Fukin, and Nahallin have been appropriated
or are in the process of being appropriated for the Betar
settlement and its access roads."



The Israeli Newspaper Davar, December 3, 1990.

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"It is done for the villages' benefit."



Reason cited against the appeals to stop the appropriation
of 2,500 acres of land in the {West Bank} villages of Husan,
Wadi Fukin and Nahallin for the Israeli settlement of
Betar.  As reported by the legal representatives of the
[Palestinian] residents of the three villages.
Davar, December 3, 1990.

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When the Gulf war is over, Americans "have a right to
demand of Israel one very big thing a recognition of the
right and necessity of the Palestinian people to have
their own homeland on a major portion of the land that
constitutes the West Bank and Gaza S Recent talk that
the West Bank and Gaza can now belong to the Israelis
for 50 years is dangerous nonsense and cannot be tolerated
by any American government determined to see to it that
the blood of its citizens will never again be shed on
Middle Eastern battlefields."



Congressman David R. Obey, Chairman of the House Foreign
Operations Subcommittee, February 5, 1991.  Report on
Israeli Settlement, March 1991.

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Israeli Housing Ministry, headed by Ariel Sharon, spends
20% of its money on projects in the occupied territories,
most of it on the 2% of Israeli settlers who also receive
special Government-backed mortgages.



New York Times, April 24, 1991.

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Housing Minister Ariel Sharon says he intends to continue
building settlements despite pleas by Secretary of State
James A. Baker 3rd to halt further expansion.



New York Times, July 26, 1991.

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"In an effort to prevent Arabs from settling on land in
the Negev, the Galilee and along the Green Line which
divided Israel and the West Bank until the 1967 war,
the Israel Land Authority (ILA) and the Jewish Agency
will make available 1,200 lots for residential
construction to immigrants from affluent countries."



Ziv Maor, Ha'aretz reporter, From:  Immigrant homes
to block Arab expansion Ha'aretz, Friday, March 13, 1998.

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